tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post1569091571908719498..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Sunset in a factory windowLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-88677405388469167442008-01-05T17:07:00.000+01:002008-01-05T17:07:00.000+01:00(I'm partly answering the last comment here as it ...(I'm partly answering the last comment here as it brings the total on this post to 30 comments, a record total which I am simply too egotistical and narcissistic not to reach for...)<BR/>Nope, Dave, it's a Leishman selection I've gone for. Snow apparently didn't do selections as he thought they should be translated in the order and form that Rilke wrote them. As I gather you're not overly keen on anthologies and presumably, by extension therefore, selections, you would agree with him. I'll order the Snow ones in due course. <BR/>What do you think of Robert Bly, I have some resistance to him generally, (I'm not quite sure why, perhaps 'Iron John'brought it on?) but apparently his Rilke translations are freer than Snow's but are 'more magical'.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-76866159761326312042008-01-05T16:30:00.000+01:002008-01-05T16:30:00.000+01:00Wait - ignore that previous comment. I'm mixing up...Wait - ignore that previous comment. I'm mixing up translators of great German poets! Hamburger was Celan's translator. The Rilke translator I mean to give props to is Edward Snow. <BR/><BR/>(I should know better than to leave blog comments late at night.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-59876269622056084812008-01-05T07:11:00.000+01:002008-01-05T07:11:00.000+01:00Jean, thanks, lovely to see you. Zephyr, you too.D...Jean, thanks, lovely to see you. Zephyr, you too.<BR/>Dave - now you tell me! I've just ordered another, never mind, thanks anyway!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-33093515085722913682008-01-05T04:20:00.000+01:002008-01-05T04:20:00.000+01:00Rilke was one of the three or four greatest poets ...Rilke was one of the three or four greatest poets of the 20th century. I didn't discover this myself until about ten years ago, when I happend upon on of the Michael Hamburger translations. In Hamburger, Rilke finally has his ideal translator into English. Accept no substitutes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-84854902158361850022008-01-03T16:26:00.000+01:002008-01-03T16:26:00.000+01:00Beautifully said, Lucy!!Happy New Year...and wishe...Beautifully said, Lucy!!<BR/><BR/>Happy New Year...and wishes for many more fulfilling moments!!vicki johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564450760405974595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-50619296912120850642008-01-02T19:33:00.000+01:002008-01-02T19:33:00.000+01:00I love, love your new design and banner photo. The...I love, love your new design and banner photo. The cloth you are spinning here grows ever more subtle, interesting and beautiful.<BR/><BR/>Warmest New Year wishes to you and Tom and Molly!Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690685768980280402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-60678104417195257522008-01-02T08:34:00.000+01:002008-01-02T08:34:00.000+01:00Thank you all so much, for these comments, for rea...Thank you all so much, for these comments, for reading and for your wonderful blogs too. It really has been a very marvellous year for writing and pictures!<BR/>The photo fitted the header exactly (TG - very easy, go to 'page elements', then 'edit' on the header bar, then 'add picture', I think that's it), I tried trimming off that end half a pane but that made it too short and left a gap, so it was clearly supposed to go there as it was!<BR/>New Year resolves, (if I do them, I'm not sure...)include discovering Rilke and giving up disingenuous self-deprecation. That said, I am keeping the 'displaced dilettante' epithet - which has always been there but is perhaps now more noticable - as I still recognise myself in it, and formerly a dilettante was not a bad thing to be, and displaced I unarguably am, and none the worse for that!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-90163125054657581982008-01-02T01:45:00.000+01:002008-01-02T01:45:00.000+01:00A Happy New Year to you, too, Lucy. What a wonderf...A Happy New Year to you, too, Lucy. What a wonderful rumination! Truly, there is treasure <I>everywhere</I>. Some of it is for sharing while other bits, like those beautiful sunbursts, are like little gifts for the viewer alone, simultaneously emptying us and yet filling us with the need to share that bit of wonder. <BR/><BR/>DH and I are both introverts, too, so after a couple of weekends of delightful company, we are enjoying our own solitary pursuits today. We've done nothing so marvelous as you have, though - I love the new header!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-61453248683067042192008-01-02T00:16:00.000+01:002008-01-02T00:16:00.000+01:00Happy New Year Lucy!Happy New Year Lucy!Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236459315155380910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-36542559360329318342008-01-02T00:13:00.000+01:002008-01-02T00:13:00.000+01:00Thank you for your blog - may you find more detail...Thank you for your blog - may you find more details to delight you in 2008, and may you continue to share them with us.stitchworthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04827825336666824765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-75063577852993303252008-01-01T23:23:00.000+01:002008-01-01T23:23:00.000+01:00What a thoughtful way to start the year.I must adm...What a thoughtful way to start the year.<BR/><BR/>I must admit to feeling that sense of "why bother". I think it can be useful though as it gives you time to mull over things, and to push yourself to find other ways of looking at and seeing things.<BR/><BR/>I like photographing the sky in the big puddles of standing water that we get.<BR/><BR/>I also feel a little "peopled out"<BR/>I look forward to routine reasserting itself so I can get out on my own again.apprenticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13784785172285984036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-65006204201678390132008-01-01T22:31:00.000+01:002008-01-01T22:31:00.000+01:00It is delicious not to have read somebody wonderfu...It is delicious not to have read somebody wonderful--and to have all that before you.<BR/><BR/>Lovely meditation for the new year, Lucy. May you have a year with Rilke and angels and beauty-struck moments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-58494634835276331252008-01-01T22:22:00.000+01:002008-01-01T22:22:00.000+01:00Oh, that is lovely as your new header! It looks li...Oh, that is lovely as your new header! It looks like a filmstrip, and at that a good metaphor for the blog. Not sure about "displaced dilettante," but I know how you feel. Anyway, happy new year, Lucy. Looking forward to more here in 2008.lesleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09127872882510411387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-48800203446126043742008-01-01T19:19:00.000+01:002008-01-01T19:19:00.000+01:00What a wonderful walking essay from which to step ...What a wonderful walking essay from which to step into the new year. And to discover how you crafted the new header - illuminating. <BR/><BR/>Happy New Year, Lucy!robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-467562899717153032008-01-01T14:19:00.000+01:002008-01-01T14:19:00.000+01:00Lucy, thanks so much for pointing out the bad link...Lucy, thanks so much for pointing out the bad link on my blog. Here's the correct one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2233334,00.htmlRamesh Gandhihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448755601343354802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-73665415343162684662008-01-01T14:09:00.000+01:002008-01-01T14:09:00.000+01:00Yes! Thank you for putting this into words, Lucy. ...Yes! Thank you for putting this into words, Lucy. A joy to find your blogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-23917744342533089662008-01-01T08:36:00.000+01:002008-01-01T08:36:00.000+01:00Ah, synchronicity! 'We are the bees of the invisib...Ah, synchronicity! 'We are the bees of the invisible.' A phrase to treasure. Happy New Year, Lucy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-61516664228122985322008-01-01T06:08:00.000+01:002008-01-01T06:08:00.000+01:00Dear Lucy,This was a wonderful piece to read at th...Dear Lucy,<BR/>This was a wonderful piece to read at the beginning of the year. It is hot as Hades here right now...can I come walking too? I'll bring my camera and and walk quietly.herhimnbrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01182397064631016552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-53948026589283130842008-01-01T04:44:00.000+01:002008-01-01T04:44:00.000+01:00Thank you. Happy New Year!Thank you. Happy New Year!Bob's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-37821124099008335222007-12-31T23:42:00.000+01:002007-12-31T23:42:00.000+01:00This is an inspiring and amazing post to finish th...This is an inspiring and amazing post to finish the year on. It puts so many vital insights together. Happy New year to you.Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07642126053527835870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-10531957231512736802007-12-31T21:45:00.000+01:002007-12-31T21:45:00.000+01:00Lovely post, images and new page! Your blog is one...Lovely post, images and new page! Your blog is one of my very favourites and I treasure our new friendship! Wishing you and Tom many new successes and joys, good health, peace and contentment, and abundant creativity. Happy New Year! Bonne année!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-66158655836708571692007-12-31T20:08:00.000+01:002007-12-31T20:08:00.000+01:00more good stuff ... hooray and happy new yearmore good stuff ... hooray and happy new yeartristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-17549915392981517512007-12-31T18:49:00.000+01:002007-12-31T18:49:00.000+01:00Discovering your blog made 2007 a sweeter year, Lu...Discovering your blog made 2007 a sweeter year, Lucy. I'm looking forward to more in a Happy New Year!Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-48052690772456521752007-12-31T18:03:00.000+01:002007-12-31T18:03:00.000+01:00Beautiful words and photos! Perfect for New Years...Beautiful words and photos! Perfect for New Years Eve!! Thank you!!jzrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05938966640494785871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-86023894473446815172007-12-31T17:40:00.000+01:002007-12-31T17:40:00.000+01:00you have to tell me how you put that photo on your...you have to tell me how you put that photo on your header - it looks stupendous. I didn't think such things were possible on blogger!!Fire Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518190677399410354noreply@blogger.com